CNN Digital Producer and on-air personality Derek Dodge got his very first taste of grits last night at Eatocracy's inaugural Secret Supper at Chef Linton Hopkins' Restaurant Eugene. Sure, he's a recent Atlanta transplant, but folks at the table were shocked, SHOCKED to learn that he'd made it this far in life without sampling this Southern staple. His response - he'd always been put off by the name. Grits sound, well gritty. Point taken. Though they're exceptionally close in construct to Italian polenta, the name could be a tad repellent to those who've not been schooled in the ways of their creamy majesty. The chef agreed that perhaps a re-branding could help ensnare a phobic public - though he admitted a certain glee in straight-up saying "hog jowl" rather than "guanciale" and "lardo" rather than "white bacon." For the record, Derek polished off the whole portion and seemed to enjoy every bite of those Anson Mills grits with braised beef short rib, roasted log-grown shiitakes, red wine jus, and baby carrots that Joe Reynolds of Love Is Love Farm has just picked 30 minutes before. He may not have been a grit eater, but that boy knows what's good. |
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Born, raised southern, still in the south, never heard the term "calf slobber pie." Strange how others think 1 so called "treat" means treat for all.
blood meat
blood sausage
That good old southern rural treat, "Calf Slobber Pie".
Balut!! *gag*
Two Words:
HEAD. CHEESE.
My grandmother made this stuff every time we came to visit when I was little. It was a jiggly, meat-and-fat-studded congealed mass of disgusting stuff that my dad used to smear on toast. (shudder). To this day, the thought of it makes my stomach churn.
Go to the UK and ask for a can of "Spotted Dick". Some kind of cake? Can't bring myself to.
liver,beets and spam.i will get very light headed and feel like throwing up.
The only dish with a name that really turned me off was called "sh*t on a shingle." It was finely cut meat mixed into a sauce and poured over bread. It looked like something that had already been eaten. With a name like that, it's a wonder anybody ever ate it.
There's an old expression, "You'd chaw on your own ankle if you were hungry enough".
I have had more problems with foods that sounded good and tasted like regurgitated salt and vinegar potato chips than foods that sounded bad. A haggis, when prepared by a butcher that truly loves his craft AND knows how to cook, can be a fantastic thing. There is no One True Recipe for haggis. each butcher makes their own version. I have had some terrible haggis and some absolutly wonderful haggis. SOme of it tastes like a big sausage with barley in it
..the proof is now here...ENJOY..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barfi
..sorry about the typo above..."a SWEET" East Indain Confection..
..correct me if I'm wrong, but there is-or used to be a swwet East Indian confection known as "Baarfii"..is this still true??
Spotted Dick sounds scary.
'HOT BROWN" sounds disgusting.
Yes, I agree. I just add the word "steaming" onto the beginning of that, and I can clearly visualise why it is so disgusting.
Smelts!
How about a fish sausage from Japan called Homo Sausage? It's actually sort of an acronym in Japanese (I forget what the "ho" and "mo" are for, though). http://www.engrish.com/2003/08/homo-sausage/
Hog maw; pig's stomach. Ugh to both names and ugh to even ever trying them
Yes, I agree. The same goes for tripe and chitlins, they sound almost as disgusting as they are.
Definitely. If it sounds nasty, I won't eat it. A bit close minded but There are plenty of non-vomit-inducing foods i'd still love to try without including various organs, fungi, and who knows what else.
I've also had the opposite happen, where an inconspicuous name has lead to a foul feast. Pepper Pot sure sounds tasty... It looked like a tomato-based peppery stew with chicken and vegetables. When I got the can opened and heated, the scent was malodorous at best. The taste was oily and unpleasant. And all of the chicken was fatty, and looked like skin... except it wasn't chicken. it was tripe. The whole ordeal was foul.
A couple of things I simply cannot eat if they're called by their popular names. I cannot eat a 'hoagie' if it's called a 'grinder.' It sounds to me as though it has already been chewed! Call it a 'hoagie,' and I'll love it. And, of course, those 'grits.' It's not possible for me to eat liver, eggplant or mushrooms, either. The names sound just ghastly to me.
The brave souls should try Nato (Fermed Soy beans)..a delicacy in some parts of Japan. You eat, spit and taste still lingers...!
eggplant parmesean,breaded,browned in olive oil ,covered with homemade tomato sauce,topped with mozzarella and then baked just until cheese melts,serve with pasta sprinkle with parm. cheese,very good.used to love lobster until i heard someone on a cooking show refer to them as spiders of the sea. that was it for me! i think i read that spiders and lobster are cousins.
I would have to starve before I would eat liver, of any kind.
I'm with you there. I don't eat organs or anything with organs stll intact.
Eggplant YUCK.
when i was a very young girl,my dad would fix fried kidneys and fava beans.my mother would go in the other room.first you must boil the p..s out of them,literally,change the water and boil the p..s out of them again.dredge in flour,brown in olive oil serve with fava beans that have been fried in olive oil as well,little salt lots of pepper .they were delicious,but i probably would'nt eat them again,well i might if my dad was here to fix them.
How about "Rump Roast?"
That's nothing compared to my grand daughter's favorite food...roast beast! She used to say it when she was a toddler, and it's just become a family expression. LOL
Same expression in our house too. It's a line from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas".
That begs the question,"Do you prefer right cheek or left, and would you like gravy with that?"
I used to tease my mother all the time about her lunchtime favorite, tomato aspic. "Mom, why would anyone want to eat ASS-pick?" To this day, I haven't eaten it, but I don't know if it's because of the name or because I could never get around the concept of tomato juice jello. I think of jello as fruity, sweet, and dessert-y.
Yes, I agree. Two things I have never found appealing are savory gelatin concoctions, and savory bread pudding, which is also called a strata. Not gross, they just seem slightly wrong. Also slightly off in the appeal category are polenta, which seems like underdone gummy mashed potato substitute. Ditto for gnocchi, chewy gummy pseudo mashed potato balls. I know, people love that stuff, but give me straight up mashed and I'm good.
I dont eat Lobsters, crabs or any other shellfish for two reasons...One? They seriously are the insects of the sea! Anyone who has come face to face with a New York City Cockroach can testify that giant arthropods with antennas dont stir the appetite. But secondly? The name! Crustaceans! It doesnt even sound attractive...
Oh, and FYI...Anything that comes from larvae and is in the same family as woodlice and tongue worms (Also "crustaceans") is, most certainly, a BUG!
That's the same reason I cannot eat anything produced by that company, Krusteaz. I actually feel vaguely ill when I see one of their ads.
Exactly. I don't eat shrimp either. Why does anyone eat shrimp? Disgusting ... that "thin black line" in the shrimp is the shrimp's excrement. I choose not to eat food that should be served with a pooper scooper. And squid/octopus? No way. I'm not slicing into anything that's still hanging onto the plate when I try to eat it.
So far I haven't read too much that is so gross that I wouldn't at least try it. I love grits, I love escargots. I have even had steak tartare which was really good. But I don't think I could eat monkey brains or chimpanzee like they do in some parts of africa. There is also a "delicacy" in northern africa that is essentially rotten meat. In Iceland they have a delicacy that is bad fish. I visited Turkey many years back and my uncle ate lamb's brains. They looked just like brains when they were served!!! Now I think these are gross, but apparently plenty of people eat these things.
"Potty Pies", sold in Singapore are supposed to be like an Australian-style meat pie or a USA-style pot pie, are just too horribly named for me to order one. I realize that there is a lot of bad "Singlish" that causes errors like this, but this one just needs to be flushed.
My mother ate brains scrambled with eggs, remember it well. She had very different tastes than us 2 kids had, pickled pig feet, tripe, remember once seeing a beef tongue in the refrigerator telling us how good it was, cooked and sliced for sandwiches.Mother also told me about eating unborn lamb- yep that is right, when she visited Mexico. Talk about turning my stomach. I thought perhaps it came from growing up during the depression but her sister told me no. Our background is Italian but I will just settle for the pasta. As far as the ribs on bread, have seen others eat that way as well as piece of chicken on bread, fish also. Raised in the south, never ate grits.
Pigs' trotters and giblets - not very appealing food names. Never cared for jawbreakers either, but toad-in-a-hole is pretty good!
Pigs' trotters are AKA pickled pigs' feet - also not very appealing!
I already left my comment, but I forgot –
MOLE sauce!
Oh gawd, please just let out a big belch at the table instead of serving something that sounds as if it were made of leftovers from a dermatology clinic.
(I think it's actually pronounced "moh-lay", but everyone always says MOLE)
Haggis - the name is horrible, the taste is worse, and it looks the same going in as it does coming out.
Yep. That's another thing I just can't eat! How anyone can drool at the anticipation of dining on haggis, I'll never understand.
Our sh*t on a shingle was anything left over mixed with gravy and poured ever toast. Sometimes it was good somethimes it was bad.
Fried mush never turned me on. Could be all the maple syrup you smother it with to give it flavor.
Walleye cheeks were always a treat at the lake.
Never tried it but my dad still stinks a boiled tounge sandwich is the best.
Anybody tried barbecued lamb testicles?
I'm surprised people find names like "Kefir" and "hash" off-putting.
For me it's not the name of a food – which is more likely to make me try it tha than avoid it, like Brains Faggots, spotted dick or gumbo. For me it's graphic names like "head Cheese", "tongue" and "blood sausage". Or that guy who had something on here about "pig face" a few days ago. Yeah no thanks, I like my pig face parts in hot dogs thank you very much.
And I agree with Truth who listed "blood orange" as revolting. I KNOW it's a very nice fruit, I've eaten them. But I have to really make myself not think of a big ol' bag of clotting platelets all the while.Couldn't they have called them after rubys or something? You don't see the grapefruit people trying to peddle lblood grapefruit...
And though I love chocolate, referring to it as "mud" on a menu will cause me to pass it over every time.
Yech.
I would never eat anything called 'Divinity'
Divinity is really hard to make but delicious.
I don't eat:
Beets
rutabagas
boiled okra
What about "sh** on a shingle"? Really just creamed chopped beef or chicken on toast. Very southern. Doesn't taste bad unless you just can't cook at all or burn the toast. I've never made it for myself, but being from a family with 6 kids, I certainly have eaten it. I love grits. One to avoid in the store is the vague "potted meat product".
I kinda with you there Rachel.
That "potted meat stuff" is kinda gross. We got that in Vietnam. Nasty. Now I do like Underwoods "deviled ham". That makes a good sandwich.
SOS has always been good way back in elementary school.
SOS, as it's called in the Army, is probably the best quick meal ever. It's browned chopped meat covered in a great white sauce. The sauce can be made by using a super fine flour called "Wondra." It's sold in a blue cardboard can which is available in just about any grocery store. The directions are printed on the can and makes a simple but very tasty cream sauce. Adjust the ingredients or add you own. Enjoy!!
Sorry,just changing the name.
Nothing wrong with good grits, but I will never eat blood sausage.
some good grits with butter, a little salt and pepper.
fix em up with some cheese or mix in some scrambled eggs.
Or best of all. Cover them with some "real" red-eye gravy. OMG. So good you'd slap yo mama.
Let us not forget about Ye Olde Spotted Dick
Haggis!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis
Head cheese... yeah, that brings up some disgusting images.
calamari and sushi – two words that make my stomach curl.
Knowing that one is squid and the other is raw fish makes me want to puke.
Chitlings is a pretty digusting thing and word too. The word alone makes me think of (insert bad word here).
Shrimp used to freak me out too... but it was never because of the word. I saw a picture of a live shrimp once and they look so creepy!
Other words:
- Gizzards
- Goat Cheese
- Gyro (I can't eat a lamb... that seems so evil! lol)
Lambs are right tasty
In that case, my friend, your palate is quite tame. Calamari and Sushi in no way sound bad. And you were freaked out by shrimp. Dude. WTF?
The "poo poo platter" leaves a bad taste..
YOUBRO is a eunich in search of some Rocky Mountain oysters. Poor lost soul.
The word "espuma" is very unappealing . It's just a fancy word for foam, but it sounds too much like "sputum" which is phlegm.
how about a youngmeat youbro sangwitch
2 ON 1 ???????????????
LOL seriously...that's the best both of you can do? YOUBRO I think you and youngmeat would make a lovely couple.
ONLY BECAUSE ITS SIZE MAKES THE REST OF MY BODY LOOK SMALL IN COMPARISON.
hey youbro auroradawn is a man baby
WELL THEN HEY BABY. LETS LAUGH THE NIGHT AWAY
LOL @ YOUBRO...You're offer made me laugh almost as much as I'm sure your penis would.
Hilarious! Infantile genitalia no doubt.
After reading all of these posts, I'm glad I already ate my lunch!
Sometimes food names turn me off, like meat loaf. A loaf of meat, sounds gross to me. Also corned beef. I don't know what it is about that one, but it grosses me out.
I SURELY WOULD LIKE YOUR HELP IN WHIPPIN UP A DISH AURORADAWN. YOU HUNGRY
You're an idiot. Sounds like you like it more than anyone.
HOW ABOUT MAN"O"NAISE. ITS THE SWEET SALTY CREAM FROM THE PENIS YOU LIKE TO EAT. SPREAD IT ON SOME TOAST. S**T IS GOOOOOOOOOOOD...........
Gawd,I hate it when Rick Sanchez tries to make a guest appearance!
I make a delicious stew with lentils, but if I call it "Lentil Stew" people immediately think of that baby-vomit-green slime and don't even give my tomato-base, more-like-a-chili concoction a chance. So I renamed it "Italian Chili" and finally got some followers.
Recipe?
Tripe............................aaaacccckkk !!!
I agree!! I remember seeing this in the grocery store when I was a little kid and was horrified. I have never forgotten what it looked like and will NEVER eat it!
Lord I remember my mother cooking tripe soup when I was a kid. We had no option about eating WHATEVER was put in front of us (this included lots of stuff on the list like blood puddings though we called them black puddings, kidney stew, corned beef hash, just called hash in our house, and spam. I did get out of eating brains and eggs because I threw up the minute I saw it on the table.) Tripe is like chewing on a kitchen sponge. It's one of the nastiest things out there. I also never liked lamb. This may be why I've been a vegetarian most of the last 25 years.
The first time I encountered "green bean casserole" in my early twenties, I thought I would die... I love green beans, but these were shredded somehow, in a condensed soup base and crispy onions out of a can that coat your mouth with grease. BBBRRRRRAHHH. I still picture it.
I agree. What a way to destroy good beans.
Blood oranges and crispy eel
I'm more likely to let the ingredients sway me than the name of the dish. Presentation is also huge for me. If it's presented badly, I'm more likely not to enjoy it. Of course, taste is king. But if I know the ingredients beforehand and I think they're unappetizing, I probably won't give the food much of a chance.
For instance, I've never eaten SPAM. Not because I don't have access to it, and I feel that if so many people eat it, there must be something to like about it. But I've never been eager to get past the meat-like-substance in a can concept.
But names? Not so much. It doesn't really matter what it's called.
OOPS...Meant sheeps stomach
Gross Me Out-Ethel!
Cow stomach is SOO much better. Menudo = awesomeness.
Quark....sounds odd but is really yummy. I had it at a Great Restaurant in Nova Scotia. Pumpkin and Quark stuffed ravioli on a bed of kale...delicious. In Britain though Faggots and Mushy peas yuck! The faggots are ....similar to haggis without being stuffed in a pig stomach...sounds delish don't it!!! LOL
I took a trip to Ireland and this was totally the case. Blood pudding, clotted cream, pasties, bangers, corned beef. It was all delicious, but the names are such turn-off's! For some reason clotted cream especially gives me the worst visual!
Clotted cream is awesome! The name threw me a little the first time I encountered it but then I tried it. Better than ice cream!! Wish we could get decent clottend cream in the US.
Shoot, sometimes I GIVE something a less-than-tasty sounding name just to enjoy the shock value with my family. Salisbury steaks are "furry steaks", as a tribute to how they looked in school cafeterias. Spagetti is "spag" and a meat/gravy/veggie concoction served over rice is "cr*p" (you know what word I mean!). As a result, my daughter has never let the names of food put her off trying them.
I have no idea what the real name is, but my mom made something she called "throw up soup" . Apparently her brother (my uncle) named it this when they were kids. Obviously he didn't want to eat it. It's just chicken broth base, spinach, egg (I think), and parmesan cheese. I liked it and thought the name was amusing as a kid.
Pon Haus or "scrapple." It's PA Dutch. Exactly what it sounds like....a loaf made out of of boiled down, congealed organs and other garbage left over from a butchered pig. Usually fried up for breakfast and served with maple syrup. *shudder*
My mom is originally from PA. Whenever she could find scrapple where we lived (SC) she would buy it. Honestly I don't care what's in it. I love it. Haven't had it in years. May have to search where I live now to see if it is available.
It's a Sunday morning staple at my parents' house. It smells fantastic but, unfortuntely, I can't get past the "what's in it" factor.
Found it in the freezer at our local market in Mass. Not as good as from the butcher in PA but not bad. Take it on Boy Scouts campouts and they will trade me anything to get a bite.
"Steamed Chicken Feet " on Asian buffet, name aside, looked like steamed chicken feet, even had hair on them.
I don't know why, but the visual made me laugh.
I am from the south and I HATE grits. Nasty looking stuff, but I LOVE escargot..so go figure!
I'm just the opposite. Mmmm, grits with butter, black pepper and a little cheddar cheese. No snalis for me.
The names of foods don't bother me, but there are times I don't want to know what I am eating. Example – I had a Korean friend take me to an Asian restaurant once and he had me try various kinds of sushi. I told him "don't tell me what I am eating until after I do so!". The eel sushi was delicious, but if I had know it was eel before I ate it, I might not have been willing to do so.
Blood Jello (Tiet Canh)
My wife's meat loaf, yikes
You're awful! LOL I bet u'd like mine!
I don't let my Meat Loaf!
Meat.
Agreed. All of this is making my stomach turn. I can't even stand regular old meat... nevermind the brains, the snails, and the testicles.
McRib Sandwich
Ditto
They do look nasty! Yuck... ribs on bread?
Last for tonight: CHICKEN BOG. I'll give you a hint. I never heard of it until I moved to the northeastern section of South Carolina. They, in turn, looked like I'd just said "Hail Satan!" when I asked, some 20 odd years ago, "What is it?"
Okay, I'll give. The basic ingredients are merely sausage, rice, and chicken. Often on the bone, cooked until it's falling off.
Heralds back to the days of poverty and farms, they'd kill a chicken, toss it in a pot with rice and some sausage they had leftover that they had made when they'd slaughtered a hog, and make Chicken Bog.
It's such a staple here it is on menus, and our local town has an annual "Chicken Bog Festival" contest! LORIS.
Huh, never heard of it but I have to admit it sounds pretty good. It appeals to the poor country boy in me. Did you eat any? I'm going to google a recipe. Thanks.
I'm originally from SC and I have never heard of chicken bog. Granted I'm from the NW of SC but still kind of surprised to learn of this food item.
Here's another one for you: You've seen those small cans of miniature sausages and hotdogs? The kind you might set out on a tray with snacks at a party? Well, I've seen cans about that size of, and I kid you not, PORK BRAINS, and they show them scrambled up in eggs, in a picture on the can.
Now, have I ever heard anyone say they eat them? No.
Have I ever seen them offered on a menu? No.
Whereas I do see grits on MANY menus, and HAVE seen Chittlins on SEVERAL, as well.
So apparently it's a very small group that likes it.
I've had brains and eggs...can't recall that it tasted bad. Of course, I didn't KNOW that's what I was eating at the time; I was a guest and thought someone had burned some of the scrambled eggs. I wouldn't eat it again unless I was starving. I've had mountain oysters and rooster fries, squirrel, and turtle...refused the raccoon and opossom. I'd rather have a ham sandwich!
Many people who grew up on farms, especially the older set, will tell you about eating scrambled brains and eggs after a slaughter. They used the whole animal, including the parts the rest of us don't find appealing. To them, it wasn't a big deal.
Brains & eggs – I ate that: http://www.slashfood.com/2008/12/29/brains-and-eggs/
Can you control the F Word on this site and I don't mean Fried?
Go eff yourself, loser.
Uh, you talking to me, Jdizz?
Uh-Oh-Stay after class young man!
I can tell she is P.O'd 'cause she is using the Robert DeNiro Voice.
My client has NO Comment at this time.I will Petition the Court to release him on ROR until a Court Date has been established!
Hey, Kat. I was being sarcastic with Proper English. I would not, in mean spirit, address you that way. Unless you want me to. I kid.
Want to know what looks like cat brains? My 'nads.
Fried brain sandwiches are common in St. Louis. So are snoot sandwiches (barbequed pig noses)
There is a regional Southern "delicacy" called C-loaf. The C stands for "chittlin's," which are one of the few things in my Appalachian upbringing I never developed a taste for (mostly because I could never get past the smell). Now, calling it "Chittlin' Loaf" would be bad enough, but C-loaf is somehow worse because it includes the shock of discovery when you find out what the C stands for.
And for the record, anyone calling them "chitterlings" will be asked to leave the South immediately and their admission fee will not be refunded.
It's called Chitllin's. It's not called C-loaf. Not anywhere I've been in NC or SC anyway, and I've been around a lot of it, although I'd never eat it. Seen it in the stores, too!
Neese's makes C-loaf, which is exactly what it sounds like, a loaf made out of chittlin's. They also make liver pudding, and the more obscure livermush.
http://www.neesesausage.com/products/default.htm
Robert, I'm not sure why you feel the need to correct everyone who comments here. Just because it's called something different where you live does not mean that the person is wrong. Different dishes are called different things in other parts of the country.
I'm not interested in ever eating a CUMQUAT.
Ha! Sounds like something I should film.
How about "bull testicles." And calling them Rocky Mountain oysters doesn't help mask that
Actually, that term is usually to fool tourists and first timers to Colorado.
And from what I hear, they are rather tasty, though I have not had...
Actually, the term is merely "mountain oysters," in the NC mountains, and it IS their slang term for them. It's not to "fool" tourists.
And only in NC, hick.
In Nebraska, they call them bull fries.
We just called them calf fries. I was a church secretary and we had a deacon that had cancer and had to have you know what removed. Our fine pastor visited him at home when he returned from the hospital with a whole platter of calf fries. I thought he had a very sick sense of humor but between the two of them the ate them all!
I'm sorry...the correct name is PRAIRIE oysters
In Iowa we also have turkey fries. Pig, calf, turkey doesn't matter where it came from most people just call it what is...a nut fry.
I tried them in Argentina, along with "tripa gorda", which is the last 6-8 inches of the cows intestine before it sees
sunlight. The "mountain oysters" were like the most tender filet mignon I have ever tasted. The tripa gorda was
not properly cooked, and was not very good, but I would try it again if I were in a place where it was properly
prepared.. The only food I dont like is sea urchins.
Here in Wyoming the are called bull fries and my 10 yr old daughter loves them. I can't eat them because I saw how bull fries were "harvested." That did it for me.
Blood Pudding
Blood Oranges
Goat Cheese
Head Cheese
Liverwurst
And I think that may be it...
Lets not forget : KIDNEY PIE
And Penis.
I love penia.
Penis that is.
that is funny, i am pretty sure i am older than you and when i was much younger (child) my grandmom made homemade kielbasa and headcheese in her kitchen. always doing what i was told and eating what was put in front of me. i ate it. but.....in my defense i also knew exactly what went into it. nothing but fresh ingredients and no entrails....but being polish, we also had duck blood soup; czernina, i could never never bring myself to try that (also saw that made)ewwwwww
Mom had a head cheese mold which made the head cheese into the shape of a pig's head. Guess she wanted everyone to know what it was in case someone didn't know.
Hash – corned beef that is. And if calling it hash isn't bad enough it looks like canned dog food and then people smother it in ketchup – YUCK!!!
Ketchup is a fruit, almost entirely tomato, one of the 'super' foods. I even put it on fish eggs...
corned beef hash and green beans with bread and butter YUMMM !!
...kidding. about the fish eggs
Blood oranges are delicious! I had my first one in Italy and have only seen then once (not that I look all the time) here in the US.
Sweet blood oranges with intensely-colored interiors are often available at the Pike Place Public Market in Seattle.
Check your local co-op for the best selection of organic and/or rare fruits and veggies.
Blood Oranges are delicious! I love making fresh-squeezed blood orange juice. It has such a different taste, but so good!
That plate of food looks sooooooooo good!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! I want that I want that I want that.
I drink Kefir too, unappealing name, even worse description, great stuff.
I regularly drink a fermented milk beverage called "Kefir" which helps with digestion. Now if that is an unappetizing name then I don't know what is.
My Digestive Disease Blog. http://www.digestforlife.com
Yikes! How about snail, eel, fish eggs. Yuk.
"Yikes! How about snail, eel, fish eggs. Yuk."
I would NEVER eat snail. I swear I'd starve first. I've had no cause or chance to eat caviar (fish eggs), nor want to, either.
I HAVE eaten eel, as a braised thing at a Sushi bar. It was DELICIOUS.
Excargot is delicious! My dad ordered it once when I was a kid and let me have a piece and I've loved it ever since. It's just like a slightly chewy explosion of butter and garlic, melts in your mouth! You should give it a try sometime, but hey if not that much more for me :)
You don't know what you are missing...you will not taste the name of them...
I'm surprised someone who states they've eaten sushi has not had fish eggs. They don't put caviar on sushi, but they do put roe, which is also a type of fish egg.
Yeah! I would never eat SNAIL!
No Way No How!
But I do love escargot with garlic and buttter!!!
Hey wait......
That's funny. I grew up in Russia and kefir was as common over there as yogurt here. Incidentally, "yogurt" came from Bulgaria, and kefir from Turkey. The first time I tried yogurt was in USA.
"He was a bold man who first ate an oyster."-Jonathon Swift
Or a starving one. I still can't figure why anyone would eat a second one.
Kefir seems kind of weird, but the name makes me think of Mr. Sutherland. A word that was a turn off for me was one I read on a menu of a foo-foo la-la restaurant, the kind where you pay upwards of a couple hundred dollars per person, minimum. It was something served with a sauce called a "Gastrique." Here's a hint to people who think that's a good word to use to describe crazy expensive food, or any food at all for that matter: it sounds too much like "gastric," as in gastric juices and gastric by-pass. Eeeeewwwww.